My VMware home lab

[shaithis]

I did try messing around with the virtual network config in workstation put just kept hitting too many limitations.

Perhaps your design will be simpler and work, mine did not!

EDIT: Just remembered.....the limitation I hit was 1 VLAN per adapter. I could not trunk anything in/out of the virtual environment.

[Moby-Dick]

My Lab got a recent bit of an upgrade - I say upgrade , I started again from scratch. Gigabyte Brix with 32GB of RAM and 512GB of NVMe SSD as the management host , then the box underneath is a 4 blade unit that runs my Maxta cluster, each blade has 64GB RAM . Dual 8core CPU , 3x1TB SAS, 512GB NVME SSD and a 128GB M.2 Sata SSD for a boot volume. I don't power the blades up too often at the moment - its touch on the noisy side and may require a migration to the garage / loft. You might also spot my backup NAS , KVM switch & Samsung Smartthings hub ( I use z-wave plugs to remotely power the lab on when I need it )

[badass]

I hope you can expense your electricity bill!

[Moby-Dick]

Its not too bad at full chat from a power point of view. Its just a bit noisy to run all of the time. the 24/7 stuff runs on the management pod which has a very low power draw. I'll generally run the lab during the day when my Solar PV array is running too